MEDIARELEASE: Some things are best swept away…

Either Grant Franklin was get­ting bet­ter with his aim, or he hadn’t been using this toi­let for two days.

Meet house­cleaner Peri Min­neopa, before she turned in her vac­uum cleaner and picked up a pri­vate detective’s license. She is clean­ing a house for a well-to-do fam­ily, and their only son seems sus­pi­ciously MIA. When Peri thinks he might have met with foul play, she must either get her client to call in the police, or the police to inves­ti­gate. When every­one around her is so resis­tant, what’s a smart cookie like her to do?

This is a short story, and first appeared in the anthol­ogy, Miss­ing, under the title, “Clean­ing Up at the Franks.”